JAH Podcast

The podcast section of the JAH Web site (http://www.journalofamericanhistory.org/podcast/) houses interviews with several JAH authors. Our most recent podcast features Christopher J. Phillips talking about his September 2014 article “The New Math and Midcentury American Politics.” We will regularly be posting interviews with other JAH authors as well.

In the future we hope also to bring you podcasts of conversations with award-winning authors of books on American history. Anyone may listen to and download these high-quality audio files for free.

Civil War at 150 Podcast

Ed Linenthal, the editor of the JAH, talks with Mark Smith, Carolina Distinguished Professor of History at the University of South Carolina and the author of The Smell of Battle, the Taste of Siege: A Sensory History of the Civil War (2014). You can listen to this June 2014 conversation for free at http://www.oah.org/programs/civilwar/oah-civil-war-at-150-podcast.

Article Submissions

All articles submitted to the Journal of American History must now include an abstract. The abstract must be on a separate page from the body of the article and may not be longer than 500 words.

Submit or Update Your Reviewer Data Sheet

The Journal of American History is always looking for qualified reviewers for books and articles. To make the best matches between reviewers and books or articles being reviewed, we need our reviewer information to be as complete and up-to-date as possible. It is crucial that prospective reviewers submit or update a JAH reviewer data sheet, which indicates areas of interest and publications.

Revised David Thelen Award

The OAH David Thelen Award is now open to new unpublished and published non-English- language scholarship. The Organization of American Historians gives the David Thelen Award biennially to the best article on American history written in a language other than English that illustrates how the understanding of American history can be interpreted differently when conceived in the scholarly or public debates of a nation other than the United States. The winning article will be published in translation in the JAH. Entries that have been previously published during 2013 and 2014 and new scholarship should be submitted by May 1, 2015.

Awards

The Louis Pelzer Memorial Award Committee invites candidates for graduate degrees to submit essays for the Louis Pelzer Memorial Award competition. Essays may deal with any period or topic in the history of the United States. The winning essay will be published in the JAH. In addition, the OAH presents $500 to the winner. The deadline for entries for the 2014 competition is December 1, 2014.

Recognition

The Association for Documentary Editing passed a resolution of appreciation commending the JAH for its support of the field of documentary editing through peer reviews and calling historians' attention to the value of document collections.

Corrections

In the September 2014 issue of the JAH, in the review of Where Is My Home? Slovak Immigration to North America (p. 628), the reference at the end of the fourth paragraph should read “p. 122n31.”

Ed Linenthal, editor of the Journal of American History, speaks with Michael J. Pfeifer, author of “At the Hands of Parties Unknown? The State of the Field of Lynching Scholarship”, a State of the Field essay appearing in the December 2014 issue of the JAH.

In the March 2012 installment of “Textbooks and Teaching,” Contributing Editor Scott E. Casper brings together three essays that ask questions about how we ought to teach history and encourage us, ultimately, to inquire why we teach history.